# Openstack - auto\_floating\_ip

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/openstack-auto-floating-ip/17040>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 12, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/openstack-auto-floating-ip/17040 "2014-12-12T11:41:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Scott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Scott](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Scott)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/openstack-auto-floating-ip/17040/1 "2014-12-12T11:41:37Z")

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I’m have a playbook which creates an instance in openstack. I have used the auto\_floating\_ip = yes to get a public IP address created and assigned but this fails with “msg: Unable to create floating ip: Floating ip pool not found”.

I then thought that I needed to assign the floating\_ip\_pools setting but this then errors “msg: parameters are mutually exclusive: [‘auto\_floating\_ip’, ‘floating\_ip\_pools’]” which I’m assuming means you cannot use these two variables together. I cannot see how to state what pool to use even though in my setup I have only one pool:

nova floating-ip-pool-list

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**Author:** ![Kari\_Skytta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kari\_Skytta](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kari_Skytta)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/openstack-auto-floating-ip/17040/2 "2015-05-07T06:13:41Z")

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I have exactly the same problem…Did you already managed to solve this?

perjantai 12. joulukuuta 2014 13.41.37 UTC+2 Scott MacCormack kirjoitti:

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Davila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Davila](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Davila)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/openstack-auto-floating-ip/17040/3 "2015-05-08T20:52:53Z")

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Hey guys, for now I’d suggest using the modules currently in the pull request queue, the ones made by emonty. [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pulls?utf8=✓&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+openstack](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+openstack)

Just download any or all of them into your $PLAYBOOK\_ROOT/library directory and you should be able to use them.

Would also be awesome if you let us know via github if they work well for you.